SABRINA SPOILERS
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SABRINA: Rory
The Cousin: Lorelie
The best friend: Lane
The mean aunt: Emily
The nice aunt: Richard
The boy friend: Dean
The mean girls: Paris + Crew
It's not a bad formula. It's a great formula.
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The DARK LORD: Taylor
ReplyDeleteThe Mortuary: The Inn
ReplyDeleteI... have no idea what you are talking about...
ReplyDeleteMatt Johnson I'm saying it's the same show as Gilmore Girls.
ReplyDeleteWhich? You should watch.
It's great, too. Exactly: Gilmore Girls, with contemporary dialogue, diversity, and attitudes, but ostensibly set in "the 60s."
ReplyDeleteOh. OH... You mean the new Sab*R*ina show. Got it.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Matt Johnson
ReplyDeleteJohn Jainschigg And, from the beginning, the feminism is intersection: Daughters of the Black Panthers!
ReplyDeleteI probably should have gotten that... but Friday night brain is apparently checked out for actually thinking.
ReplyDeleteAnd typing for me, Matt
ReplyDeleteJohn Jainschigg its not set in the 60s. Her cousin has a laptop
ReplyDeleteJoseph Teller - According to the show-runners, the show is "set in the 60s." (Which is why I used quotes.) But as you say, the anachronisms come fast and thick. There are characters of all colors and flavors, and all the characters seem to have completely modern attitudes about race, sexuality, womens' rights, etc. There are many, many references to post-60s pop culture. Characters from pre-existing traditions fusing history and later literature (e.g., Daniel Webster, who was a real person, but who was later mythologized by Stephen Vincent Benet, etc.) appear in contemporaneous guise, etc.
ReplyDeleteThere are also some technological displacements, like the laptop -- and presumably an internet (since the cousin doesn't look like the type to work on spreadsheets or render 3D imagery offline). On the other hand, I'm not seeing any mobile phones, are you? The vehicles seem to be of 60s-ish vintage. And the sets are all gothic or sort of mid-century Arkham Asylum. So ... it's interesting.
Maybe it will be explained. Maybe it has something to do with witches being able to travel in time. Maybe it has something to do with the location somehow being in a skewed relationship to time (the series opens with the line 'In Greendale, where it always feels like Halloween ...'
I watched the first few episodes last night. Loving it so far. Of course, I was always a fan of the MJH version, so nobody should be surprised at this.
ReplyDeleteJohn Jainschigg a lack of cell phones can be easily explained, if the intent is that the town is rural enough that the cost to bring in towers are considered lacking.
ReplyDeleteBut, Harvey also has a smart cellphone that's shown, and he's not a witch.
The beginning of the film, the argument about slow vs fast zombies is itself a pure anachronism for a 1960s setting.
David Cronenberg remake of The Fly is also mentioned, which would bring the series to at least 1986.
The music track is all over the place. Bad Moon Arising is a 1970s song.
However, a song playing in Episode 7 (I've been told) takes events forward by at least a decade: Fiona Apple’s 1996 hit “Criminal."
So really its all over the map... and Vulture Culture did an article on it and says they were at first steered to it being a 1960s retro series and then corrected by the powers that be behind it that it wasn't but is supposed to be contemporary....
Joseph Teller - Yes, as I said, it's clearly contemporary in some respects, and then draws from all over the recent temporal map in others.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to see a link to an article in Vulture or elsewhere that quotes someone in authority over the series saying, flat-out and without additional qualification, that it's supposed to be taken as contemporary.
Because that's simply wrong. This is TV. And nobody spends money like these people spent money creating a temporally-confusing aesthetic (look at the clothes, the cars, the set dressing, the props) without there being some intention behind doing that.
On the other hand, this is TV, so the intention doesn't need to be profound. Maybe they're making a sidelong hommage to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which ended in 2003, four years before the iPhone. Maybe they just want to give people who notice details like this something to ponder over.
Still, I feel as though they're making a series of pretty profound and deliberate statements here, in building an entire show around teenage girl drama without ever showing someone taking a selfie or mentioning social media.
My guess: It's an aesthetic choice (the sixties look awesome), with little more behind it.
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